"Magic by its nature must be Extropic. Which means there is always more of it. not always less of it."

-Unknown. Likely Conversion bureau pony stories. Transhumanism and the current state of refugee politics wrapped over extremely in pony paint

Well, They weren't treating her too bad. that was something at the least. They did have her residing with the rest of her sisters though, which i can understand from a logistics and standardization standpoint. Still didn't feel good to the more jealous side of me though. But at least they seemed to be treating Comet okay from what i saw, There was. I swear. her bunks wasn't too shabby and were fairly middle-class from my viewpoint. Not sure if it was for comfort or to prevent someone from suffering a psychotic break when holed up but i think it was the thought that counts. I also noticed food that. according to my ship memories might have fit the culture in the UK. I don't know what the components were however, as I was still too unfamiliar with the united kingdom.

I could see traces of something like... fish in that dish though.

When I showed up and quietly pushed open the door, which i noted to be something like timber or some other wood-like material. Comet's eyes locked onto me as she stood there. After that, I tried starting a chat. but as it turns out... It's easy to talk to people online. Talking in-person without any form of social skills. however. is much harder.

You should have seen the look on my face. I had no idea what to literally save while the urge to bolt out of there grew stronger.

Was the battle the reason why she was resting there? I mean I didn't blame her, but could i have done something? is it that i am out here and she's in there? Did she think I be so fast to forget her? Cygnet took up a massive portion of popularity sure, but... it's not my fault. It's not like i consciously chose the choice or that I could have overturned what the fandom thought about the C-class! And despite my severely lacking social skills when being one the to start a conversation...

Now I feel even more bad and worse for forgetting about her for that long of a time.

"You okay. Norfie?" Repulse asked, forcing me back to reality as i resisted the urge to nod. The two destroyers who had been looking at us. who i didn't recognize in my databanks at first glance had decided to give us some space and had somewhat walked off. I looked back up at Repulse to give my reply as i quietly repeated mentally to not be nervous.

"N-not. Repulse." I admitted as I returned my stare to ahead. "Just kinda... makes me wonder why she is stuck there in t-that room."

"Hmm..." Repulse hummed. nodding and running her hand though my hair. There was a silence after that. "If i can ask. Norfie, Is there a reason you've taking a liking to her?" That made me glare. Now she was pressing one of my memories by touching upon the subject in that i used to be a fan of Comet!

Despite my glare, she still seemed actually curious about my reaction. "Aside from being someone who seems s-sweethearted." I began. "At some point she gave me... like... a narrow warning against a nearby enemy ship." I sighed as even if i was a Kansen. i still needed to be thinking of what i wanted to remember in question. and given I was busy trying to link up with a fleet and providing firepower of my own. that wasn't too surprising. "And then she got caught in a f-fight with a enemy destroyer."

Repulse's eyes widened a bit. "Ah?"

"Y..Yeah... I mean..." I turned back to stare at Comet's direction, well. where she was. "We were fighting together against a destroyer and a heavy cruiser... Comet was holding her own but she was in trouble before i r-relieved her with support and firepower t-to drag that destroyer off her tail."

"Dragged?" Repulse asked. curiosity in her eyes, Well. now that i think about it. She had to only have heard of the battle itself right? She likely wasn't there to witness it and wouldn't have known about the Corsair-2s i sent to take out that siren destroyer. Then again, She's energetic. A bit like Cleveland so i have to ignore that for now.

"Y-yes. Then I kept obliterating it with my secondaries u-until it was nothing more than a clump of steel. When I woke up i was in..." I paused. What do i call what i woke up in? "I-I think it was a bath and the first thought of so..." I softly withheld my words until i found.. the correct one. "W-was that green-haired destroyer. Until K-kent was next to me." Then again, who knew. my memory could be a ditz sometimes. and I had spent too little time in a Kansen body. "I-I don't know who dragged me in there to keep me from leaking further fuel or s-something." Come to think of it, could i even lose fuel oil from damage to fuel bunkers?

"I see..." She replied quietly. Her energetic look had disappeared. turning to more of a sharp one.

"S-she looked like something that was gentle, yet fierce if pressed." I went on. I had to admit, If i could i would have said that Comet herself deserved more attention. Even Crescent deserved her own. too. Besides, even there's only so much i can do to cover for myself without escorting shipgirls. "A-And I-I just... Like her. that's why... Repulse-chan."

"Oohhh. Well, She was among the first to discover you. right? Probably felt less boring with her around! Norfie." Repulse stated. I didn't disagree her with that if it wasn't for the fact I didn't talk to comet very often before i passed out. Besides, no need to let slip I was in control of Norfolk's body and this actually was not her for now. Hold on. What was that thing about technology again?

"H-hey." I began shyly with the matching face to go with it too. I had to keep this in mind. "S-So what are you guys g-going to be doing with me?"

"Probably take you in to get examined by the scientists and the repair ships." Repulse answered. "I imagine the commander and the eggheads would want to take a look at you to see if there's anything we can learn of exploit from you against the sirens! We don't have anything like you do. let alone working missiles!" Oh. that was great, hopefully that didn't mean i went traitor. right? That would just lead to me going down Opposing Forces or Sith side of whatever you called it.

The royal navy may value the safety of its shipgirls but, if it was technology far beyond their capabilities. there was no telling just what sort of mandates and rules they could ignore, I remembered XEDRA from CDDA and the SPARTAN program. as well as the HRL supersoldiers and Cyber-NTs. Hell, the british raid on german RADAR operators probably counted! Going to another one of these factions may not be a safe choice like Germany or America either. America because it had close ties to the United kingdom and there was a chance i would be just experimented on with far less accountability there.

Germany wasn't a option, They could quite and quickly easily tell that i wasn't that much of a german at heart and judging from their ideology. They were soft ethno-nationalists. no. scratch that. subtly ethno-fascists of the soft hardcore far-right wing nature mixed with militarism. And even if i transferred there, Then what? What was to stop them from doing the same thing like the Eagle union or worse. just discard me like a rag once my usefulness was up? That left the Sirens or simply going rogue. and the last option might not even be viable either for obvious reasons.

"I just hope you guys aren't going to do something scary to me when you're d-done." Repulse shrugged but brushed my hair. She must be picking up on my emotions right now and was trying to calm down any fears i might have.

Still rubbing my head. She gave her answer as Repulse got down to eye-level. "That's up to the commander." She smiled at me. "But I am sure that they won't consider scrapping you unless there was a big reason to why. And if they did that, I wouldn't understand as to why." She paused. thinking as her eyes rolled up with her mental processors going into overtime. "Come to think of it, I heard something about how if you have such technology. they might offer you asylum and a safe haven in exchange for data..."

Ah, That was less invasive. Still, who knows what might happen? They might consider my death to be a 'necessary' sacrifice even if that risked angering me and causing me to go out of control. I felt a bit ill but at the same time I was comforted by a belief that Repulse likely would not agree with the worse options. it might even lead to a mutiny, even.

Wait. what? Don't i have the ability for a alpha strike and to basically bugger off until i ran out of fuel or they got me? I still didn't look into my systems that deeply didn't i? Hmm.. Now that i am somewhere safe and with all the free time to read inside my mind...

"Think I could go and see t-them?" I asked. looking up at Repulse and away from the door.

Repulse shook her head. "I am not the one to ask Norfie. You'd have to talk to someone else for that."

"And where could i find them?" I asked again.

"Either where they are, or in a private room. I could take you there, if you want?"

I shook my head. "C-can you give me time? I only just got here as of now... Can you take me to where my room might be?"

"Then follow me. Norfolk!" Repulse suddenly shouted. pumping her hand up. Just when I was about to try and dig deeper into what i remembered of the battlecruiser. I remembered that Repulse was the energetic one in contrast to Renown and even Kent had a lot of energy along with the Fletchers. Repulse just seemed to be more calmer and not as jumpy than the others.

I just followed after Repulse as she stopped for the two destroyers. She paused only to pat them on the head which made me twitch uncomfortably and congratulate them to not stop being yourself before resuming her march toward where she was leading me. That i didn't know. Hopefully the room I am going to be stuck in does not include my sister.

That way I could be left alone to my thoughts to reminiscence over the past events of so and what anything further i was going to find out. I wasn't getting any bad vibes from what i heard. But there was still a large degree of uncertainty about what they are up to. I just needed to be informed and the best way to do that was to talk to them after i am rested up and fully awake for what awaits me.

...

I pulled hard to the left and right, feeling a shell ricochet off my deck as heavy gunfire rained down on my surroundings. I glanced over my shoulders at the battlecruiser chasing me down as my turbines were at the fastest they could go. How had they found me? What was going on with my RADARs!? And how in the hell of all where did they come from. even? Especially given i had been keeping a single fighter on patrol 24/7?

My turrets begun to rotate to my back. Monopulse and Laser rangefinder algorithms feeding data into the computers before they started blasting away with Mach 3-4 AP shells and i resumed my attempt to disengage. Pressure-fired boilers were going as hard as they could, Any reactors were fusing protons and deuteriums at their maximum capacity. trying to pile on every last drop of megawatts just to run away from the pain. I could feel the holes on my hull self-sealing as healing magic flowed inside me to regenerate the damage i had taken from direct hits.

Where was i? How does that happen? How did i end up here? Why were the sirens here? What did they want? And where were the others? Why was i left alone without any supporting elements when I was at my best in big groups?

*WARNING:ENEMY COMBAT MAGICAL USER DETECTED*

I felt something wrap around my ankle impossibly as I crashed out, pitching over into the surface as i lost my balance. I looked back and found a gloved hand holding onto my foot. A head and black hair emerged from the water. Her face contorted in pain and resignation. A dead ringer for Homura Akemi, her other arm. made out of nightmarish bionic module parts. pushed down on the surface... Hauling this nightmarish combination of Homura and Nanoha out of the waters.

Then she was on me, ring binds pinning my limbs and me to the waters surfaced. I kicked and punched. desperation overriding anything on my mind as i tried to break the binds and escape in self-preservation.

*DANGER:Core Destabilizing*

Then her hand wrapped around my throat and crushed down on it hard, I wanted to scream as grief flowed into me. pain and terror overriding my cube, but nothing came out. It was like my soul was on fire and I was unable to breathe as I felt my very being being taken apart. Cold, unfeeling eyes bore into mine as i broke free from the arm binds and tried to weakly pry her massive fingers from my neck.

She raised her other arm. Broken. jagged shards embedded in her circular shield. holding a damaged Raising heart in its Sacred mode as G-virus eyes grew from where her wrist was. She raised her arm overhead. ready to tear me apart as it came down-

It blurred.

I felt something poke my cheek. Was i dead? Did i just die? fear and anxiety built up in my chest as i-

I screamed and jumped upwards. kicking off the covers in a mad scramble to escape from the corrupted magical girl. My head crashed right into the walls next to me before I fell back down onto the pillow, whimpering in pain as i clutched the top of my head and tears built up at my eyes like a lost child.

"Norfie! Are you okay!? You just hit your head!" It took my sou-...okay. I wasn't trapped in a zombie body. It took my mind a second to recongize the voice as Kent's and I turned to my left to see the heavy cruiser giving me an intensely concerned look and looking like she wanted to jump in and hold my head between her breasts. I could see the rest of the small space, a two-decker bed with a ladder to climb to the top and another on the opposite wall. I felt my armored boots (If i had them) squirming out. but unable to reach for the wall... Which reminded me i was still a loli and in Norfolk's body.

I let out a sigh and slumped down, one hand subconsciously rubbing my head. I was still on the base. not deployed out on the seas facing death and the actual Norfolk hadn't took back control yet. Thank fucking lord for that. I don't know how she might have reacted to my situation.

"I am okay. I-I am." I groaned. looking up at the bunk above. "I had a nightmare... a really scary one." I pulled the blankets closer to me. not letting off that i was enjoying the memory of being cuddled into these fluffy blankets as a child back then, And how i would sometimes hide under them or just stuff my head into the side of a pillow as a sleeping aid.

This was the first time i had a strange dream like this ever since i arrived to 'home'. well. what passed for home right now, It seemed like from what i saw. I am getting chased by Sirens, maybe Purifier. they catch me. and before they can kill me with some sort of twisted Raising heart to magazine i wake up. I don't understand why i saw Homura like that though. and why was she infected with the G-Virus.. let alone holding Nanoha's weapon? Was my stupid subconscious pulling up memories again?

"You did?" London grumbled from her bed on the other wall. She was lying on her stomach with her arms vanishing into the bottom of the pillow. She was still in bed and sleepy while Kent was already alert and ready to face sunlight. She didn't exactly look to be in a good mood right now, which considering i just woke up screaming like a terrified girl this morning i didn't blame her. I did not bore well for my roommate's sleeping quality with these nasty mutation dreams.

And before you ask. I just noticed London doesn't sleep with her glasses on, Either she actually doesn't need them. or she may have some kind of flaw that forces her to use glasses to see right at long distances. I am honestly not sure what it could. Likely the former, since otherwise she was going to be lousy at scouting.

'Well. at least you aren't suffering from myopia anymore. at least be positive about that.' I chimed to myself before Kent perked up. "Are you going to be ok?"

I nodded. my voice muffled by the blankets. but still very much audible. "Y-yes, J-Just give me a second for it to stop h-hurting."

"Well. They're going to decide on what to do with you. So 'they' are going to be arriving into port soon." Repulse said. trying to put on some professionalism to relay the news to everyone. "Queen Elizabeth and the commander of Iris libre whats to speak with you when they arrive." Her gaze softened again. "Are you going sure you're going to be okay. Norfie-chan?"

"N-Norfolk will be fine." I tried to reassure her, faking the anxiety and fear that i was going to face from talking to people who were asking me questions. not the other way around. "J-Just give me a minute."

Kent didn't look too convinced and she was right about my internal thoughts. but nonetheless she dropped the whole topic. "Fine." She sighed, preparing to tie her hair with her signature feather ribbons. "Well. I be heading to grab some fish and chips. Wanna join me?"

I considered my answer and decided i would have said yes. but there was something that just caught my attention. "Hold up... A-any chance you know how long its going to be before t-they want me to meet them?"

"About a hour of so." Kent replied. "Why?"

"Then I am going with you as well. Kent-chan." I said simply. swinging out of the bed that i claimed on my first night out of the baths, and already I was behaving quite moe and cute as I held Kent's hand like a daughter could with a mother's hand. again familiar memories returning to me from my past life as a part of me longed for a pool.

As far as i know before i went to sleep. I must have got sleepy when bingeing on games and looking up my history. and then soemone had to drag me to the shipgirl quarters and put me into bed. I don't know who it was, Renown or one of the onee-san types? I just ended up using it. so in a way it ended up becoming my natural habitat. Again, another memory came to mine as i wondered if i would have been a good big sister roleplaying as someone who was taking care of Spence.

But that didn't matter compared to food right now.

Kent and i tried to make some small talk as we headed for mess halls. We still haven't bought up the bath incident much yet, But i suspect we are getting somewhere. She hasn't smothered me in her big chest yet and i can still chill around with her in the room without me quickly becoming eyeful of her, or feeling super awkward or afraid. so i say that's progress. at the least.

The two of us had made it and we grabbed our own food trays. One of the things i rapidly learned in my day here was how i had memories of refusing to eat food for whatever reason, and father more than often ended up flushing it down the toilet when it wasn't needed after pulling a all-nighter again as a preteen and i even ended up on the lower weight range. Thinking about that made me want to shed tears at the idea of food waste. which i didn't know at the time. If only...

And as it turned out, my hunger returned with a vengeance to fuel a child's growing body. and for my size, it was a lot. So i piled on as much meat and eggs as i could and found Kent and Repulse sitting at a table chatting between mouthfuls of what i guessed was british cuisine.

Well. at least i knew where i stand with them, I was british. right? So i went over and joined them. I was about halfway through my meal when i remembered something as a sick feeling built up in my stomach. What did Kent or Repulse say again. even if i was kinda fortune to not be on a helicopter carrier or a Nimitz-class right now?

And that's when i remembered what Kent said earlier. Queen Elizabeth and in all likelihood Richelieu wanted to see me when they arrived, probably to bicker over who gets to command me since i was british in body. yet i was french in ship class. one that only existed on paper and was a hybrid of the No2 and No3 class.

Having to put up with someone confronting you was bad enough, now i have to answer questions under severe pressure. And god knows when they found out about my Magical girl powers which would likely lead to me being experimented on in a attempt to find out how i had developed them? Or how i somehow came into existence when i wasn't even born in a cube summoning facility. just woke up underwater? Or the questions about how i ended up with a mix of Warsaw pact and NATO equipment? and what about Dorestshire. surely?

I AM ALIVE! Haha, I was just suffering from some really bad writer's block. Plus. I've been playing a lot of games lately. I've took a look at Purple shift and Tricolore of the stars. and i think its time my first fic gets some love. especially since this is my highest fav/followed story so far.

I do have a few specifications drawn up for a choice of reactors. In general they don't matter too much, although they may be important later on. and you do need power to ignite ESP propellants. let alone inject plasma into ETC guns. all the way up to ETK (Electrothermal-Kinetic) cannons. Some reactors also can be operated from seawater, while others obviously need exotic fuels.

What do you want the Sirens to do later on? Will they try to imitate me by analyzing my powers in action and looking for any programmable matter/computronium-like matter. anything close to what i am wielding compared to memory cubes? What will Azur lane do with my questionable legal status? Find out in the reviews!

Molten Salt Reactor:Ah. the famed MSRs often talked much in the nuclear community with interest thanks to interest from Generation 4 designs. Operating at atmospheric pressure. it avoids large. expensive containment structures and eliminates explosive hydrogen. A modified version can breed uranium into plutonium however. This version used by Norfolk uses HEU Uranium and takes advantage of its compact size compared to a Nimitz's or a submarine's reactor which further minimizes any weight gain. A onboard reprocessing facility. activated between reactor startups when cruising on conventional power. vastly extends Norfolk's operating duration before nuclear poisons build up. (2x 450 MW thermal/90 MW electricity/115MW shaft)

Open Cycle Gas Reactor:By letting the walls vaporize and containing the hellish uranium plasma in a fireball of doom. core temperatures vastly increase and with it power which allows for even more power in the same space. It doesn't like acceleration however, and could be pushed over the edge by battleship-caliber hits such as from Bismarck if they nearly penetrate. Fortunately at least the uranium is not escaping from a rocket nozzle. It comes with the USN-PARC Seawater-into-jet-fuel plant. (Double over MSR. Reprocesses. HEU/MOX)

Tokamak MCF Reactor:Talked a lot by futurology and economists alike for infinite growth (How stupid!). this is a early fusion powerplant, Fusion gains aren't that high. its insanely big. heavy. and with D-T. neutron radiation is everywhere which causes embrittlement and its quite expensive as seen in ITER. even more so due to size but... it does work. This one must rely on Magitech to do the job of confining the damned wriggly plasma as conventional technology otherwise is nearly impossible at the sizes used. (Full D-D. 229 MW out of 548 MW is usable) If analyzed by Azur Lane scientists. Will seem like a mass produced Tokomak reactor core whose sophistication is beyond even the ITER Project.

Advanced TokAmak MCF Reactor/Super Radiant B-66-S⑨ Engine:A step up from its older versions. This Tokomak relies on Magical energy and Magitech components to catalyze the fusion reaction. which allows for far more fusion fuel cycles like Deuterium-Lithium 6 and Proton-Deuterium. Thanks to a major increase in Fusion gains. A Compact reactor rivalling fission reactors in size also becomes possible. which again minimizes any weight gain and armor weight. The version used by Norfolk relies on the Proton-deuterium cycle from Heavy water and hydrogen. which when combined with a onboard hydrogen and deuterium plant onboard allows for truly limitless endurance. It also comes with the same USN-PARC plant. allowing for refueling of other shipgirls at sea with Kerosene. (1.084 GW thermal) If analyzed by scientists. It is still recognizable as a highly advanced form of the Tokomak. but the innovations and especially the strange magically-enhanced metals used would seem like magic and nearly overwhelming to them. A Ultracompact and downscaled version thanks to the miracles of exotic fusion is available at this range. rated at 300 MWt at the same size of a destroyer's boilers (Based on the CVN-65 Enterprise 'Reactor in place of conventional boiler')for Norfolk if picked in the reviews.